College Basketball, News, Magazines Rick Pitino will need to work his Hall of Fame magic as Louisville must replace its three leading scorers, top rebounder and deal with the ongoing fallout from an NCAA investigation that resulted in...

College Basketball, News, Magazines From the end of March through May 23, Purdue coach Matt Painter must have felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. That’s because the Boilermakers’ leading returning scorers...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Gonzaga has become a popular destination for transfers and international players, as demonstrated by former Kentucky Wildcat Kyle Wiltjer and Lithuanian Domantas Sabonis fueling last year’s...

College Basketball, News, Magazines UConn enters the 2016-17 basketball season as a bit of an unknown. The Huskies are stocked with talent and return five significant players from an NCAA Tournament team that won 25 games and earned...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Quietly, Dana Altman has gone about turning Oregon into one of the West’s most consistent programs. The Ducks had been knocking on the door of national prominence for a couple years before...

College Basketball, News, Magazines It’s 8:45 a.m. on a Friday in Indianapolis, and Michael Kaltenmark is whipping around the Butler University campus in a 2014 Ford Transit. He and his passengers have a busy schedule to keep,...

College Basketball, News, Magazines The 2016-17 Athlon Sports college basketball All-America team is full of surprises.
First, the easiest pick for the first team is a Duke player who elected to return to school rather than...

College Basketball, News, Magazines So much changed for Syracuse in the span of three weeks last March. After a much-debated invitation to the NCAA Tournament, the 10th-seeded Orange took advantage of every opportunity extended to...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Not that Jim Larranaga isn’t smart enough to figure all this out, but he enters the 2016-17 season facing questions he’s never had before.
The Hurricanes coach, coming off his...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Is 2016-17 the season in which everything for Clemson comes together and lands the Tigers back in the NCAA Tournament? Brad Brownell and the Tigers certainly hope so. Five seasons have passed since...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Pittsburgh coach Kevin Stallings ... wait ... who? What about Jamie Dixon, the man who led Pittsburgh to 11 NCAA Tournaments in 13 years and was the cornerstone of the program?
In an...

College Basketball, News, Magazines For the second straight season, Notre Dame has lost two vital pieces of an Elite Eight team. But the Fighting Irish — as they have done so often in the Mike Brey era — will identify new...

College Basketball, News, Magazines The depth of the ACC was nearly on full display in 2016-17. The league produced seven NCAA Tournament teams, six of which ended up in the Sweet 16 and two in the Final Four.
The final AP...

College Basketball, News, Magazines Melo Trimble could have departed College Park for good and left Maryland without a returning starter for the first time since freshman eligibility was restored in 1972-73. Instead, the point guard...

College Basketball, News, Magazines The Big Ten will experience a changing of the guard in 2016-17.
A league that has supplied college basketball with standout veterans over recent years is losing several of them —...

College Basketball, News, Magazines For a program returning its entire starting lineup, Michigan hardly resembles itself.
Three undergraduates transferred over the summer. Two mainstay assistants landed head coaching jobs....